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Campus Names - Revealed November 2022

  • Superintendent Dr. Tonya Knowlton shared the names that the Board of Trustees chose for Elementary #4, Elementary #5, and Middle School #2 during her November 2022 Facebook Live chat. These campuses are among the 2022 Community ISD Bond projects.
     

  • First up, Elementary #4, which is set to open on the first day of school in August 2023. This campus, located on the south side of Lavon, will be called Dodson Elementary, named after Mary Lou Dodson. Mrs. Dodson taught Title 1 and Fifth Grade Social Studies in Brave Nation for 29 years, and was well loved by her students and fellow staff. She passed on December 27, 2020, and was nominated for this honor by Suzanne Marosek, our CHS librarian. In her nomination letter, Mrs. Marosek said that Mrs. Dodson “was a rule follower to the letter. She was never late and never left work early, and is still an all-time favorite teacher of her students.”
     

  • On the east side of the District, Elementary #5 will be opening in August 2024, located off of Greenville and Main. This school will be the new home of the name “Mildred B. Ellis.” Currently the namesake of our multipurpose Education Center, Mrs. Ellis’s name will move to Josephine when her namesake elementary opens. The current building will go through a purposing and renovation phase. More information on those plans will be coming soon. If you would like to learn more about Mrs. Ellis and her storied contributions to the District, please click on the link in the chat.
     

  • She also revealed the name of Middle School #2, which will also open in August 2024, right next to Dodson Elementary. After a policy change earlier this year, all new secondary campuses in Brave Nation will have the word “Community” in the title, and won’t be named after a specific person. Mr. Leland Edge and our current middle school, as an existing campus, will be the lone exception to this rule. The board considered many options, and settled on this new name: Community Trails Middle School.

On November 28, the Community ISD Board of Trustees voted upon the the name for Middle School #3. Community Creek Middle School will be located near the intersection of Greenville and Main in Josephine, with an opening date not yet determined.

We are excited about these new sites and their new names. We can’t wait to fill them with our awesome students and staff.